Re: gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread John Griessen
John Griessen wrote: I also see directory . available even though not asked for. That showing current dir in the pcb library window seems to be a fallback for when one of the search paths does not work. I had asked for these search paths: lib-newlib = /home/john/EEProjects/footprints_luciani

Re: gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Handling of parameters is more than a little confusing with the GTK UI. If I recall correctly, .pcb/preferences overrides .pcb/settings. In addition preferences are overwritten on every regular shut-down of pcb. Not all options are processed in preferences. This means, .p

Re: gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> You use the lesstif UI, do you? Yes. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:05:55 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > My ~/.pcb/settings looks like this: You use the lesstif UI, do you? Handling of parameters is more than a little confusing with the GTK UI. If I recall correctly, .pcb/preferences overrides .pcb/settings. In addition preferences are ove

Re: gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread DJ Delorie
My ~/.pcb/settings looks like this: xcalib = 1.0040 ycalib = 1.0034 ps-bloat = -85 default-PCB-width = 40 default-PCB-height = 40 grid = 2500 mask-color = #003000 lib-newlib = /envy/dj/geda/gedasymbols/www/user/dj_delorie/footprints:. The keywords match the command line options. __

gEDA-user: ANN: vcd-0.0.0

2010-04-12 Thread Tom Hawkins
I uploaded a small library [1] for generating VCD files [2], which can be viewed with waveform tools like GTKWave [3]. Though VCD is commonly associated with Verilog simulation, at Eaton we use it to visualize vehicle data in realtime: data is pulled off the CAN bus, formated to VCD, then piped in

gEDA-user: pcb libraries and local footprints.

2010-04-12 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Tried with same line as was in ~/.pcb/preferences and it did not show the library. Not preferences, settings... if it works in ~/.pcb/settings, it works as ./pcb.settings ~/.pcb/preferences is a GTK-specific save-state file. The pcb libraries to use are defined in ~/.pcb/p

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Tried with same line as was in ~/.pcb/preferences and it did not show the > library. Not preferences, settings... if it works in ~/.pcb/settings, it works as ./pcb.settings ~/.pcb/preferences is a GTK-specific save-state file. ___ geda-user mailin

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Sounds perfect. Same way as in a ~/.pcb/preferences line? Yes. > I'm ready to test some of your import functions now. Where can I > read how to do that? File->Import Schematics The details are in the pcb.pdf that goes with it, under the Import() action. __

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-12 Thread John Griessen
John Griessen wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: PCB will look for ./pcb.settings at startup. You can set the library paths there. Tried with same line as was in ~/.pcb/preferences and it did not show the library. John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-use